Digital Archiving: 5 Reasons To Use Blu Ray / Optical Media

Optical media .... CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, and ... M-Discs (wait ... what's an M-Disc!?).

Many assume that this technology's heyday has come and gone.

For those passionate about preserving their personal data, however, optical media is still a good choice given that specific forms of it are among the sole forms of digital storage media engineered to withstand cold storage without suffering mechanical data degradation ("bit rot").

If you need more convincing, here are 5 reasons why archiving onto a modified version of the Blu Ray isn't as crazy as it might seem:

Intro - 00:00
Optical media in 2023 - 00:24
No cloud subscriptions / operating expenses - 01:06
No electricity required to store data - 01:55
It's easy to scale optical archives - 02:33
Retrieval is quick - 03:25
It's cheap to get started - 04:05